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SUBMITTER: Rigou S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9546926 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rigou Sofia S Santini Sébastien S Abergel Chantal C Claverie Jean-Michel JM Legendre Matthieu M
Nature communications 20221007 1
Giant viruses are abundant in aquatic environments and ecologically important through the metabolic reprogramming of their hosts. Less is known about giant viruses from soil even though two of them, belonging to two different viral families, were reactivated from 30,000-y-old permafrost samples. This suggests an untapped diversity of Nucleocytoviricota in this environment. Through permafrost metagenomics we reveal a unique diversity pattern and a high heterogeneity in the abundance of giant viru ...[more]